What I've noticed is that the farther you get down the list the more violence against women there is. Theres something to be said about how male horror directors love to make movies where women get raped and murdered constantly and think thats peak horror. I genuinely think that's lazy. It's also hard for me to like those movies, because I like horror movies because theyre a way to address real life fears in a safe and removed way, but these movies are just the reality afab people and women experience everyday. It feels like just another way to keep us out.
3:06 L1: for normies -4:12 friday the 13th -4:33 child’s play --5:21 scream --6:48 the conjuring ---7:09 annabelle ---7:49 the grudge ----8:57 the ring ----9:52 nightmare on elm street 10:36 L2: it gets worse samantha -11:09 texas chainsaw massacre -12:29 the hills have eyes --13:31 saw --14:09 house of 1000 corpses ---14:55 hostel ---15:51 tusk ----16:39 the human centipede ----17:59 midsommar 19:41 L3: learn 2 regret -20:07 salo -21:42 martyrs --22:45 the human centipede 2 --23:41 pink flamingos ---25:10 a serbian film ---26:31 cannibal holocaust ----28:18 the house that jack built ----29:44 (*se) dancer in the dark -----30:52 tetsuo the iron man -----31:46 shoujo tsubaki/midori ------32:38 suicide club 33:10 outro *se=self insterted
@@sonicroachdoggjrraven3263 not to mention Serbian filmmakers allegedly complained the film actually made it harder for them to get to their films made. I don’t care what “merit” that film claims to have, sticking in what it did for shock value it makes so no one but weirdos actively want to watch it and degrades whatever “message” it had.
Not even close lol. It's not even the most disturbing Serbian film (although I found NEITHER even the slightest bit disturbing...I'd say The Life and Death of a Porno Gang" is maybe worse than A Serbian Film")
I love how May has committed to making her channel just as completely unmonetizable as physically possible. The algorithm sees a new Nyx Fears video has uploaded and immediately goes "I'm just gonna protect everyone from this." Of course, everyone then proceeds to not listen. Thank you for the content May.
@@o.steinman3855 you never know, maybe this is the first time they heard about A Serbian Film and if they don't want it in their brain I'm not gonna blame them
May disclaiming her Disturbing Movie Iceberg explanation with a summary of the thesis to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race while wearing fox ears feels like intense pandering to the demographic of me and me alone. And it's working. This is perfect.
I just came over here after seeing a tiktok by a guy "Spooky" who recommended your UA-cam video even over his own (what a little legend!)! However I was not prepared to love this video but also adore you, you are genuinely great & the rest of my day will now be devoted to watching all your videos 😁 THANKS!
On normies and Annabelle: My dad likes to work in and operate haunted houses, always has. One year, maybe the year after Annabelle came out, they had a room in this haunt with a creepy doll... looked NOTHING like Annabelle from the movie, or the real-life Annabelle, who is a Raggedy Anne. He told a story about a woman who came in the room, took one look at the doll, and FLIPPED OUT, yelling "IT'S ANNABELLE! IT'S ANNABELLE!"
@@loganpharis6747 the second one is decently accurate if you ignore the Christian Avengers bullshittery around the Warrens since they were there for like a day. Otherwise it's pretty accurate to the experience of the family, or at least what the reported. But that was corroborated by paranormal experts, neighbors and a police officer.
for midsommar you should've talked about cult indoctrination !!! it played way more of a part than drugs did throughout the film. preying on a woman who's grieving her entire imediate family, making her lose her partner, and the indoctrination of the viewer, who thinks the cult did a good thing for killing the cheating boyfriend who hurt the protagonist! (when he was drugged, influenced and traumatised and drugged again after seeing his friend's dead body after he tried to run away and failed)
I believe shojo tsubaki is actually a take on the things a lot of children went through in Japan directly after WWII. its so disturbing for me because something like this probably happened to some girl after the war in Japan
It's an adaptation of a graphic novel by the infamous ero-guro artist Suehiro Maruo and on the series of kamishibai (paper play) melodramas from the '40s and '50s upon which that manga is based, as well as heavily informed by the director's own memories of being horribly bullied as a child. So it's a mix of various things, some clearly very heightened (Maruo's elegantly framed and deeply morbid neo-Surrealist artwork) and others much more grounded and tragic (Harada's own traumatic experiences during the postwar years). It's… a tough sit.
…I actually wrote a review of Midori: Shoujo Tsubaki for an anime website a while back. I will clarify that it's not weird-horny (despite technically being a Suehiro Maruo adaptation) so much as it's literally the director working out his trauma through animation, and it's about as much "fun" as that sounds. It's really upsetting and I would personally have put it lower on this chart all things considered.
Yes. I agree it needs to be a lot lower on the list as it's really more of a *"gets under your skin"* kind of scary because once you understand it, the movie might be more disturbing to the viewers who have been working through their own traumas.
Midori is super disturbing but it's also has a definite kind of humanity in my opinion. How Midori got attached to her terrible "found family" of carnies is the part that haunts me, personally, like that girl who abused her waving goodbye and seeming genuinely attached to Midori and vice versa. Like an abusive family or community is the best some people get... it made me sympathize a bit with all these monstrous assholes who were abusing Midori, because they were abused too (not that it made their actions right in any way). It's just very sad. I didn't know it was the director working through his trauma. That makes sense, thanks for mentioning that.
@@briantalbot7929 Even if you personally don't find it upsetting, which I suppose I can understand in theory, it's still definitely in the category of "things you're only likely to see if you're either really into weird anime or really into fucked up movies."
you were the first person I thought of when I was watching wendigoon's video lmao. I would be like 'oh may's talked about that one' and I would feel hip and/or cool
I think calling James Wan's approach to horror movies 'Fast and Furious-fying' is pretty accurate. His movies are well shot, well edited, and well constructed. I think James Wan is a good director. But I personally don't find his movies to be terrifying and scary. I don't mean to sound like an insufferable snob, but they feel more like theme park ride rather than horror movies. They are horror version of MCU movies in that sense.
At least MCU movies are only propaganda in the implicit sense, or when they’re given money and resources by the pentagon. The Conjuring franchise was written with the explicit intention of lionizing two abusive frauds, and getting people to turn to Jesus.
Weird quote from Daniel Tosh: "comedians like to complain 'you can't get away with saying anything these days'. you can say whatever you want. You just have to realize there are consequences" Bizarrely rational take for an edgy 2000s comedian, since a lot of his contemporaries now go on and on about about being "cEnSoReD" and everyone being too sensitive and and other crap like that
"cEnSoReD".... Between cEnSoReD and CENSORED... Where's the line? And more importantly, who draws it? Well you can pretty much do away with 95% of the iceberg, and a lot, a lot, a lot of other sh!t... Violence in video games?! Consequences? So why is it acceptable in one art form and not another? Better jail everyone involved in all those films.. It's Elmo time for you buddy... Is this 1980s Satanic Panic Born Again Christian time or 2020 oKiE wOkiE o'clock? I've seen both and I can say... Surprisingly alike... You should be reporting this video rather than watching it, right? Help out society??.. Hold up though, im still watching it, i got distracted by this comment... So Tosh is smart and he's funny but he's towing the line to save his own skin, he's dick joke edgy. Probly scared an old girlfriend is gonna try to put him up on a MeToo for clout. He's been in show biz long enough to know what buttons he can push and which ones he can't. Entertainment is a job like any other, you gotta act right to get ahead, be a company man. I'll see your Tosh and I'll raise you a Lennon and a Hicks... "And you think you're so clever and classless and free, but you're still fu(king peasants as far as I can see." "I'm tired of this back slapping, 'Aren't humanity neat?' bullsh!t. We're a virus with shoes." Oh goodness... I'm sorry.... I got worked up... I'm need to snuggle with my social anxiety pig 🐖.... Oink! Everyone needs to die inside just a little bit, its part of LIFE... so you know what part is the real you and what parts are bullsh!t... So you have something to rise above... And so when you "eMpAtHiZe" with people you actually feel for them instead of just acting like you feel sorry for them. Censorship is not compassion. Censorship is willful and enforced ignorance. Open dialogue, communication, is intelligence, is compassionate. Censorship is suffocation, censorship is violence. Consequences right?... Like when MLK pissed off that guy and he went up and shot him? Or when JFK got assassinated?? "cOnSeQuEnCeS" When are people going to get over making life miserable for each other? I see no end in sight. My pig is lonely.
personally even tho i find daniel tosh's humor pretty unfunny (not cuz its PrObLeMaTiC just dont find him funny) but generally it seems like his heart is in the right place. same for a lot of very edgy "insult" comedians too surprisingly enough
Cannibal Holocaust is 100% a horrific and legitimately racist movie but I don't think your reading is entirely accurate. The movie is about how the Western film crew are far worse than the people they are exploiting and making out to be savages; the ones who start the raping and murdering are the Western film crew. They're left alone up until that point, and they get violent on their own because they view themselves as better than these people, and because they want material for their documentary - because shock and horror and violence sell. As you said, ~~ooo they're the real cannibals~~ kind of is the message of the movie, but it's more about how colonialist, sensationalist horror and 'journalism' is in itself essentially cannibalistic, profiting off of the destruction of humanity. Not to defend the movie or anything, its production is particularly horrific and even more racist than the movie, after all.
@@aidacelicaguilar7927 My response to this keeps getting filtered out for some reason, but that's not really what she said, she said something more about the film crew being stupid and blundering into danger rather than being dangerous themselves.
There are other exploitation movies ("mondo" movies) in lower tiers where she explains further how Cannibal Holocaust is a response/criticism to these, which are unarguably extremely racist. Basically everyone here is agreeing :P
@@aidacelicaguilar7927 I think, as prom says, that regardless of how racist the movie is, the western crew does not so much "stupidly bumble" as walk in, stage a ritual murder, rape people in the population, and get killed as revenge. The "they're just stupid, what did they think would happen" is what she says in this video, but it's nice to hear she talked more about it, and she does end on the main, boiled down version of proms reading: "what if the film crew are the real cannibals?"
I like when you talk about Disturbing Things! I love horror but have hard limits because certain stuff gets trapped in my brain and turns into intrusive thoughts and if I consume it sideways through the May Filter that doesn't happen!
In all seriousness, don’t force yourself to watch the more deeper iceberg movies. I love your content but definitely prioritize your mental health and sleep schedule. I tried watching pretty basic horror movies (according to my horror coniseur friends) and I couldn’t sleep properly for almost 2 weeks.
I think something to understand about the 120 days of Sodom is how prescient it still is. In Italy Alessandra Mussolini was an MEP until very recently, one of his grandsons stood to be in the Senate. Fascism is still ripe and a prominent ideology as shown by Liga Nord and the 5 star party. In Italy a lot of people still have this nostalgia for Mussolini, "he made the trains run on time", etc, both among the elderly who grew up during the war and their children. My father and my aunt's family and my grandparents still hold on to it - I'll never forget my aunt's husband's il duce apron. I think because of that, it's still quite visceral both in the film itself and in it's application to modern day Italy. Not much has changed since it was made, and there's not been really any reckoning with Italian fascism as there was in Germany. I think it's quite comparable to the Confederacy in the US, in that I think a lot of people would engage in the brutal acts depicted in the film today.
@@chumblewumble2422 It's fictional but based on events like it that were all too common. There's been a lot written about the film and its writer and I think it's very important to understand at the least. The film is really visceral and I don't know that I would recommend it if you don't want to watch it, but you should definitely read about it.
@@chumblewumble2422 Well, I'm pretty sure they've happened somewhere, sometime. If nothing else, allegedly some similar shit (no pun intended) was going on in a certain french aristocrat's castle. But about fascist italy, I don't know.
I too saw The Grudge with my sister in theater in our home town when I was 13. Coincidentally the person sat next to me on my right was a girl who used to bully me lot in school. She ended up dying later that year. Needless to say, that movie still gives me the heebie jeebies
I’m surprised clockwork orange isn’t somewhere up in one of the more chill tiers, I’ve heard people are disturbed by it (and I’m pissed cause it’s one of my favourite movies)
Martyrs is a film that still sends cold shivers down my spine whenever I think about it. Genuinely never want to watch it again but simultaneously glad I at least experienced it once. Side Note: I stan the fictional Conjuring Universe Warrens rather than the real ones because I feel they are straight up grifters who are only different from the likes of Joel Osteen or Pat Robertson in that they don't have megachurch/evangelical empires.
They're also both dead so there's that. LOL. Still waiting on Pat 'disgusting piece of shit' Robertson & Joel 'vile ripoff scumbag' Osteen to join them. Benny Hinn & Jim Bakker can both go too.
2009 internet: oh God in this movie they sewed three people together in a row, I can't sleep just from thinking about it 2021 internet: lol close the loop, doc
It has been a long time since i watched nyx and so i was confused when i saw this video popped up that was not a skeleton in the thumbnail. I am glad you are doing you.
I feel the upper part of the iceberg should’ve been filled with the disturbing stuff thats not overtly sexual or violent like Eraserhead. I would be eraserhead and tetsuo iron man on the 1 and 2 parts of the iceberg. I adore this series and I love EVERYTHING you put out, keep on chuggin, queen.
@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick With all the exploitation films I’ve been seeing, it brainwashes me into thinking that Tetsuo Iron Man is not particularly pornographic and gory. My mistake lolol
Thank you for that video ! Also, love that Pier Paolo Pasolini made a documentary about what Italians were thinking about gay (as Pasolini was openly gay) and many of the answers were "If there is one in front of me, I kill him" and Pasolini is like ":)" RIP King
when i saw that iceberg i thought "there's quite a bit missing from this that i know may has seen and done videos on" and now yay you're filling in those blanks.
Honestly *The House That Jack Built* has one of the best representations of OCD that I've ever seen in cinema. Like to the point it kinda pissed me off how much I related to Jack's delusions and my own experience w/ OCD.
I watched Dancer in the Dark with my grandma when I was far too young to experience something like that and the final scene of that movie has literally never left me
I saw bits of the last one. It was an animated version of a guro manga. The movie was done by one guy who made it his passion project. It was banned in Japan for a long time.
One of the most disturbing films I’ve ever seen, Titicut Follies, made an appearance on top 10 lists here and there, but I’ve never seen anyone go into real detail about it. It’s devastating, extremely sad movie
i think you misscharacterized shojo tsubaki as just a horny anime film (in my opinon), but knowing the context and who made it might help you see it different, it was made and animated by just one guy and some voice actors over the course of more than five years, so the animation is very cheap and rudimentary, the director and animator always pushes an anti war and anti bullying agenda, he has a UA-cam channel in witch he depicts different leftist protests and has talked about his own abuse. i found it to not be very exploitative or showing too much, in my opinion not a movie just for kicks, i dont know if you watched and read it differently tho, it is based on an eroguro manga, i can see how you might draw that conclusion
Brilliant video! For those who want to know about Shoujo Tsubaki, I have seen it and this is my opinion. It is honestly an experience to watch. It combines a lot of beautiful imagery with really really disturbing scenes. I felt so overwhelmed watching it and the ending is so confusing but the experience in general is so worth the watch, and you really feel for the main character. The characters are honestly out of this world, so weird and cruel but so interesting at the same time. Definitely worth a watch if you can handle the imagery and disturbing ideaology.
idk why, im a crybaby and i got terrified by movies like Tarnation and Cache, but Saló wasnt scary... at all? its just tragic. its just awful. i think its super important to denounce these sorts of things, especially when its something that society wants to ignore. but in the end its not that bad as saw, tbh, at least to me.
Yeah, I feel like ppl don't get that its drama/arthouse and not like a genre film aka horror... And it's become a bit of a novelty for so called "normies" even though its a straight pure cinema... Pasolini's other films are fucking great too specifically Arabians nights
I almost feel like disturbing films and horror/scary movies should be in different categories tbh I’ve been like disgusted and exhausted and moved by disturbing films but they don’t make me like check under my bed before I got to sleep, ya know? Like they aren’t regular scary they are more existential. Or frankly just gross lol
Yeah, I was so scared of watching this film and thought it would be a good idea to read the book first, but the book is out of this world way more fucked up than the movie tbh
@@danielvandam I think there was a weird misconception going around online specifically in film lists of so-called most disturbing films ever because I've seen lists with Salo and Cannibal Holocaust, they usually mix in a Serbian film into the bunch. Ppl misconstrued disturbing and horror as the same thing. These lists of films weren't usually created for educational purposes and they weren't aimed at cinephiles, but usually the hegemony, and because of that they were usually clickbait. So now you have all these ppl watching Salo just to say they saw it... and dare I say without really experienceing it as actual cinema. At least that's a partial reason.
I just found your channel and you have earned a new subscriber ! Thank you for subjecting yourself to this horrible crap so we don’t have to. Sending good vibes for your sanity.
You're one of the only people who I know on this platform who can adequately discuss this iceberg. You, Spookyrice and The Horror Geek are my shortlist for this topic.
Total disagree on the interpretation of Midsommar (I think it’s more like a violent crash-course on cult psychology, which often includes manipulation through drugs administered with dubious/non consent). BUT freaking rad seeing you cover the Iceberg! Good shit, hyped for part 2
Completely agree. And if I can add, as a male survivor of sexual assault, it is absolutely WONDERFUL when I see people dismiss the scene where the dude literally gets drugged, gang raped, and then runs away horrified after the fact as him just having sex. Just great. Cool. Cool cool cool.
@@simonbolivar6169 I think it’s a little more ambiguous than that, but I totally get that perspective. But I think it’s more about a breakup being taken advantage of by a cult, so a combination of the two. Like how Hereditary is a child death tragedy that gets taken advantage of by a demon and its worshippers. In Midsommar, I pick up much more on the cult theme partly because real cults do take advantage of trauma and relationship issues, making them worse while misguiding you into thinking it’s better, hence the protagonist’s joy in the end. But that’s just my interpretation of it. I just think it’s more nuanced than how May put it in this video, and she even clarifies it in the next one that she’s aware there’s more to it than that.
@@Ergoperidot honestly, it's a take I've seen in most Midsommar reviews or discussions, where they minimize his rape or discount it entirely, so I'm not entirely surprised. It's just disappointing as hell to see May do the same thing.
27:11 most of the time, cannibalism occurs as a funeral rite, known as mortuary cannibalism. The Wari tribe did this in order to completely break down the body quickly because the idea of burying a corpse and having it rotting in the ground for years was horrific to them. Different cultures have different ideas of what 'putting to rest' means. To the Wari, it was desolation through consuming the body so that it wouldn't be physically present in any recognizable form. Due to invasion of their lands and deforestation, the Wari were exposed to flu, malaria, and a plethora of other diseases they had no immunity against. The Brazilian government agreed to give them medical aid, if they ceased their sacred funerary rites. This is a positive example of mortuary cannibalism, sadly stolen from those who practiced it. It isn't what I want done to my future corpse (the end result of all life) but I sympathize and believe that if a practice doesn't harm or oppress, then go right ahead. Enjoy that Long Pig, just remember the secret's in the sauce
@@ashergibson9969 relatively certain that they ate their human well done. Now the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea specifically ate the brains and developed kuru, would die from it, and then the cycle would start over. Interestingly, there is currently research showing that members of this tribe may have developed some immunity to prions due to how long this practice was taking place. So to ammend my previous comment, cultural relativism should include space for being critical of practices that are clearly harmful within the practicing group, while understanding reasoning. Best example of taboo in one culture that could be either positive or negative depending on how it's practiced: cannibalism; Fore vs Wari.
Love your pink hair 🙌 I also thought about you when I saw the wendigoon iceberg too. I feel like all your disturbing movie videos during the pandemic explored a lot of the movies on the list.
I saw the Wendigoon video and the whole time I was thinking "this is something Nyx Fears woulda done", so thank you for doing this thing to me and my mind.
It’s funny that you mentioned how “the human centipede” was made almost as a joke, because Kevin Smith made “tusk” because of a joke/ banter from one of his podcasts. I enjoyed that movie, because it is awful and it is fucked up, but that’s pretty much the point.
I will admit, I was surprised Wendigoon tracked down what he did to watch. A lot of the films on the lower tiers are just pain on celluloid, or, more usually, digital pain. Still, he made a really good effort. Also, still love your new album.
I can confirm both points. I tried to show it to a couple of friends, and we had to stop the film about 20 minutes in, since The Things That Happen Around The 20 Minute Mark was clearly too much for one of them. I have apologised to the friend in question ever since. (Tetsuo is a wild, violent and hyper-kinetic experience, and, demonstrably, not suitable for everyone. I'm personally fascinated with how the director, Shinya Tsukamoto, films movement - there's an angry, intensive, frenetic, unstoppable energy to the way he shoots Tetsuo, or the boxing scenes in Tokyo Fist, or the action in Bullet Ballet).
These tiers are so subjective. As soon as you mentioned Suicide Club, I began humming the song that the in-universe band performs in that movie. Because it's rad. I watched that movie as a teenager and it didn't scare me at all. It might be moderately disgusting at times but... Yeah. Many things in lower tiers, on the other hand, make me afraid of walking around my home at night.
Friday the 13th, Child's Play, and Scream definitely should not be on this list. They are so out of place and not disturbing. They're gems on the slasher genre crown! The Grudge and The Ring are perfect examples of movies that should be on the list; disturbing and deeply uncomfortable.
actually the way you talked about people cannot handle horror at all - I am one of them! I have once seen a movie about an evil mermaid that my entire friend group laughed through and I spent the entire night watching stand up comedy with the lights on :) all this to say - you said your channel is a gift to those who are opposite of that, but in fact when I saw this disturbing iceberg on Reddit and noticed how high up were entries I’ve been told are the worst thing in existence, I really wanted to know the story of the lower tiers (and the upper ones too), but I obviously couldn’t research on my own, so your video is a godsend for me bc you’re really funny and you handle the subject matter with such grace, and bc it’s UA-cam I know there‘a at least a degree of censorship so from a total normie who you tried to warn off - I stayed and I thank you from the bottom of my heart
Your Grudge story is so relatable. I was about the same age when my step-sister and I went to go see The Ring in theaters, and we were sure we were going to die in seven days. Absolutely traumatic experience. And now here I am! :D
MAY!!!!! the algorithm had unsubscribed me from you!!!! I was recently wondering where you went but oh my god here you are wowowowow!!!! I LOVE your hair!!!!
The House that Jack Built is probably my least favorite Lars Von Trier, I totally feel the 'smart man makes smart film' vibe. And yes, I fucking love Dancer in the Dark, I watched it was a child and never recovered
Ngl as much of a fan of horror as I am, I am a little terrified to go lower than tier three on this iceberg. Like I'm just not a fan of a lot of the very common things that seem to crop up in those movies.
Thank you queen for doing this so we don't have to. Also I would LOVE a video on The Conjuring as christian propaganda and how it compares to the real life Warrens but I totally understand if you wouldn't want to touch that can of worms with a ten foot pole. I just saw 3rd one with my partner and dang they really want to bring the satanic panic back.
anything in the bottom teirs arent illegal in the US, you can find most of the movies by just searching up the names or asking people in forums. The youtuber Coldravens nest makes good reviews and explains the movies in teir 8 really well.
afaik real footage of murder/death can be considered evidence in a case? and also these movies’ production included crimes, so it’s probably illegal to buy/own them
@@grindgrindgrind666 its only considered withholding evidence if the death video itself is filmed in the US. The clips in these mixtapes don't show any crime In the US. all the clips in these mixtapes are just clips from Liveleak and Bestgore put together in a 3 hour compilation
I ordered your novel, Fluids and it just came in!!! I'm SO excited to read it. I love you! Thank you for continuing to make these videos. Keep up the amazing work ❤
We watched dancer in the dark for my film studies class when I was like 17, I don't know how that was allowed, but I just remember the disturbing factor really boiled down to knowing how Bjork was treated on set for me. Its like a creepy home movie. I'm glad she could reconcile with acting later on though, because I really like her performances.She's going to be in the next Robert Eggers movie and I'm so damn excited.
@Dante Dare you literally made me recall a repressed memory from my teen years. I was 16 or 17 and I was home alone and up late and I was looking for something to watch and Dancer in the Dark was coming on some channel and I recall watching it and it really upset me and after that, I was afraid to stay up late because I was afraid of having another experience like I did with Dancer in the Dark.
I've seen shoujo tsubaki. I watched it when I was fairly young when I was into edgy shit (it was on UA-cam too?) The movie is really just about watching the horrible shit an actual child is being out through. The movie really starts and ends on a sad note. It's really a tale of abandonment, and how that can hurt a young person I think in both a literal and metaphorical sense. Don't recommend, the visuals at times are very intricate and interesting but it's a very hard watch. Read a synopsis if you are interested.
The stuff at the very bottom isn't illegal, just pretty hard to find. If you want to know what's in them, I recommend the channel Coldraven's Nest as he's currently reviewing them all
What I've noticed is that the farther you get down the list the more violence against women there is. Theres something to be said about how male horror directors love to make movies where women get raped and murdered constantly and think thats peak horror. I genuinely think that's lazy. It's also hard for me to like those movies, because I like horror movies because theyre a way to address real life fears in a safe and removed way, but these movies are just the reality afab people and women experience everyday. It feels like just another way to keep us out.
yeah, women and animal abuse for no reason
@@roleat ew
Yea, it’s telling tbh.
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U r basically saying men lives are less valuable.
3:06 L1: for normies
-4:12 friday the 13th
-4:33 child’s play
--5:21 scream
--6:48 the conjuring
---7:09 annabelle
---7:49 the grudge
----8:57 the ring
----9:52 nightmare on elm street
10:36 L2: it gets worse samantha
-11:09 texas chainsaw massacre
-12:29 the hills have eyes
--13:31 saw
--14:09 house of 1000 corpses
---14:55 hostel
---15:51 tusk
----16:39 the human centipede
----17:59 midsommar
19:41 L3: learn 2 regret
-20:07 salo
-21:42 martyrs
--22:45 the human centipede 2
--23:41 pink flamingos
---25:10 a serbian film
---26:31 cannibal holocaust
----28:18 the house that jack built
----29:44 (*se) dancer in the dark
-----30:52 tetsuo the iron man
-----31:46 shoujo tsubaki/midori
------32:38 suicide club
33:10 outro
*se=self insterted
Thank you so much 🙏🏼
Cover photos for the movies 🤔
doing Gods work😩💕
i love you for this 🙏🏼
Ty for organizing so well
"A Serbian film is NOT queen shit." beautiful sentence
Yeah, I always found the folks claiming it was some metaphorical bs full of their own hot air.
I honestly don't know how it got the spot on the list it did he was literally putting in the most disturbing things imaginable in it
It’s just plain fucking disgusting
@@sonicroachdoggjrraven3263 not to mention Serbian filmmakers allegedly complained the film actually made it harder for them to get to their films made. I don’t care what “merit” that film claims to have, sticking in what it did for shock value it makes so no one but weirdos actively want to watch it and degrades whatever “message” it had.
Not even close lol. It's not even the most disturbing Serbian film (although I found NEITHER even the slightest bit disturbing...I'd say The Life and Death of a Porno Gang" is maybe worse than A Serbian Film")
We’ll be watching your career with great interest
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THIS. THIS IS THE YT CROSSOVER I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR! FINALLY! YA’LL ARE MY FAVES 🔥🔥🔥
@Wendigoon, you were my gateway into all of this. Er… thank you?
I love how May has committed to making her channel just as completely unmonetizable as physically possible. The algorithm sees a new Nyx Fears video has uploaded and immediately goes "I'm just gonna protect everyone from this." Of course, everyone then proceeds to not listen. Thank you for the content May.
@@donthaveaname2262 Let's play the fuck off game. You start.
The only person qualified honestly.
totally, I saw the iceberg meme and I was like "eh, im kinda interested but nah" then I saw it was nyx and just clicked silently
It’s like when doctors pick apart scenes from house, she’s in her element lol
Not an iceberg UA-camr but SpookyRice does a REALLY good job doing breakdowns of each disturbing movie individually
"Some of this stuff is stuff you can't unthink about"
You know what? That's a good warning and has convinced me to pass on this video. Thanks, May!
You don't have to worry, really, she only gets as far as like tier 3 in this video - the emotionally scarring stuff will be in the next video.
@@o.steinman3855 you never know, maybe this is the first time they heard about A Serbian Film and if they don't want it in their brain I'm not gonna blame them
@@madtheorist1856 ah, good point, I forgot that that one came up in this video lol
@@madtheorist1856 I haven't watched the video but she didn't put actual clips right?
@@winterdreambell they are pretty much impossible to find. You would actually have to go out of your way to find them
May disclaiming her Disturbing Movie Iceberg explanation with a summary of the thesis to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race while wearing fox ears feels like intense pandering to the demographic of me and me alone. And it's working. This is perfect.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who was in love with it - May is truly wonderful for us weirdos ❤️
I just came over here after seeing a tiktok by a guy "Spooky" who recommended your UA-cam video even over his own (what a little legend!)! However I was not prepared to love this video but also adore you, you are genuinely great & the rest of my day will now be devoted to watching all your videos 😁 THANKS!
I’m here from the tiktok guy too! Best recommendation for sure 👏👏👏
Same
Here from the tiktok as well :)
Samee
Same!
On normies and Annabelle: My dad likes to work in and operate haunted houses, always has. One year, maybe the year after Annabelle came out, they had a room in this haunt with a creepy doll... looked NOTHING like Annabelle from the movie, or the real-life Annabelle, who is a Raggedy Anne. He told a story about a woman who came in the room, took one look at the doll, and FLIPPED OUT, yelling "IT'S ANNABELLE! IT'S ANNABELLE!"
LOL maybe it could be a thing like AN ANNABELLE? I can't stop thinking about this now.
@@creepyspookyicky Like "a babadook" LOL
Legit had the conversation about the Conjuring movies being religious propaganda while getting my haunted house tattoo like 5 days ago LOL
I mean, it's heavily based on truth. I don't know if I could call it propaganda at that point
@Chase Miller The stories of the different people involved matched up and remained consistent
@@loganpharis6747 so you're saying that dude who committed that murder was actually possessed and not just insane
@@zhitchcresttail3387 I was talking about the first Conjuring movie, I haven't looked into the claims of the most recent one
@@loganpharis6747 the second one is decently accurate if you ignore the Christian Avengers bullshittery around the Warrens since they were there for like a day. Otherwise it's pretty accurate to the experience of the family, or at least what the reported. But that was corroborated by paranormal experts, neighbors and a police officer.
for midsommar you should've talked about cult indoctrination !!! it played way more of a part than drugs did throughout the film. preying on a woman who's grieving her entire imediate family, making her lose her partner, and the indoctrination of the viewer, who thinks the cult did a good thing for killing the cheating boyfriend who hurt the protagonist! (when he was drugged, influenced and traumatised and drugged again after seeing his friend's dead body after he tried to run away and failed)
She did it, the absolute madwoman
I believe shojo tsubaki is actually a take on the things a lot of children went through in Japan directly after WWII. its so disturbing for me because something like this probably happened to some girl after the war in Japan
It's an adaptation of a graphic novel by the infamous ero-guro artist Suehiro Maruo and on the series of kamishibai (paper play) melodramas from the '40s and '50s upon which that manga is based, as well as heavily informed by the director's own memories of being horribly bullied as a child. So it's a mix of various things, some clearly very heightened (Maruo's elegantly framed and deeply morbid neo-Surrealist artwork) and others much more grounded and tragic (Harada's own traumatic experiences during the postwar years). It's… a tough sit.
@Joey Van hellsing Partly, but like I said, it's influenced by different sources with different perspectives. There isn't one sole single meaning.
"Really grabs that part of us that doesn't want to cut off our foot and says: you gotta cut off that foot."
…I actually wrote a review of Midori: Shoujo Tsubaki for an anime website a while back. I will clarify that it's not weird-horny (despite technically being a Suehiro Maruo adaptation) so much as it's literally the director working out his trauma through animation, and it's about as much "fun" as that sounds. It's really upsetting and I would personally have put it lower on this chart all things considered.
Thank you for this! I was about to type out a similar explanation, so I appreciate you doing so.
Yes. I agree it needs to be a lot lower on the list as it's really more of a *"gets under your skin"* kind of scary because once you understand it, the movie might be more disturbing to the viewers who have been working through their own traumas.
Midori is super disturbing but it's also has a definite kind of humanity in my opinion. How Midori got attached to her terrible "found family" of carnies is the part that haunts me, personally, like that girl who abused her waving goodbye and seeming genuinely attached to Midori and vice versa. Like an abusive family or community is the best some people get... it made me sympathize a bit with all these monstrous assholes who were abusing Midori, because they were abused too (not that it made their actions right in any way). It's just very sad. I didn't know it was the director working through his trauma. That makes sense, thanks for mentioning that.
It needs to be higher up on the list because it's not bad at all
@@briantalbot7929 Even if you personally don't find it upsetting, which I suppose I can understand in theory, it's still definitely in the category of "things you're only likely to see if you're either really into weird anime or really into fucked up movies."
you were the first person I thought of when I was watching wendigoon's video lmao. I would be like 'oh may's talked about that one' and I would feel hip and/or cool
Yooooo same!
Me too!
Wendigoon is normie af
We need May
Same, I was thinking may is super qualified maybe the only one qualified
Lol me too
I think calling James Wan's approach to horror movies 'Fast and Furious-fying' is pretty accurate. His movies are well shot, well edited, and well constructed. I think James Wan is a good director. But I personally don't find his movies to be terrifying and scary. I don't mean to sound like an insufferable snob, but they feel more like theme park ride rather than horror movies. They are horror version of MCU movies in that sense.
At least MCU movies are only propaganda in the implicit sense, or when they’re given money and resources by the pentagon.
The Conjuring franchise was written with the explicit intention of lionizing two abusive frauds, and getting people to turn to Jesus.
Insidious is terrifying if you get sleep paralysis 😬
@@JM-yx4ew Everything’s terrifying if you have sleep paralysis.
wow that is the most accurate thing ive heard in a while
@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick so are Wan et al Christian??
Weird quote from Daniel Tosh: "comedians like to complain 'you can't get away with saying anything these days'.
you can say whatever you want.
You just have to realize there are consequences"
Bizarrely rational take for an edgy 2000s comedian, since a lot of his contemporaries now go on and on about about being "cEnSoReD" and everyone being too sensitive and and other crap like that
"cEnSoReD".... Between cEnSoReD and CENSORED... Where's the line? And more importantly, who draws it? Well you can pretty much do away with 95% of the iceberg, and a lot, a lot, a lot of other sh!t... Violence in video games?! Consequences? So why is it acceptable in one art form and not another? Better jail everyone involved in all those films.. It's Elmo time for you buddy... Is this 1980s Satanic Panic Born Again Christian time or 2020 oKiE wOkiE o'clock? I've seen both and I can say... Surprisingly alike... You should be reporting this video rather than watching it, right? Help out society??.. Hold up though, im still watching it, i got distracted by this comment... So Tosh is smart and he's funny but he's towing the line to save his own skin, he's dick joke edgy. Probly scared an old girlfriend is gonna try to put him up on a MeToo for clout. He's been in show biz long enough to know what buttons he can push and which ones he can't. Entertainment is a job like any other, you gotta act right to get ahead, be a company man. I'll see your Tosh and I'll raise you a Lennon and a Hicks... "And you think you're so clever and classless and free, but you're still fu(king peasants as far as I can see." "I'm tired of this back slapping, 'Aren't humanity neat?' bullsh!t. We're a virus with shoes."
Oh goodness... I'm sorry.... I got worked up... I'm need to snuggle with my social anxiety pig 🐖.... Oink! Everyone needs to die inside just a little bit, its part of LIFE... so you know what part is the real you and what parts are bullsh!t... So you have something to rise above... And so when you "eMpAtHiZe" with people you actually feel for them instead of just acting like you feel sorry for them. Censorship is not compassion. Censorship is willful and enforced ignorance. Open dialogue, communication, is intelligence, is compassionate. Censorship is suffocation, censorship is violence. Consequences right?... Like when MLK pissed off that guy and he went up and shot him? Or when JFK got assassinated?? "cOnSeQuEnCeS" When are people going to get over making life miserable for each other? I see no end in sight. My pig is lonely.
@@thegreatsiberianitch who tf are u lmao
personally even tho i find daniel tosh's humor pretty unfunny (not cuz its PrObLeMaTiC just dont find him funny) but generally it seems like his heart is in the right place. same for a lot of very edgy "insult" comedians too surprisingly enough
@@sawdustanddiamonds99 A Serpent 🐍, a Fire 🔥 and a Void!!! 💀
@@thegreatsiberianitch bro what are you on, you wrote this novel just to defend a man that doesn't give 2 shits abt u
Level 1 is so tame oh my god. When you know the sheer depravity of the lower tiers it really just...makes you think
There are so many great movies that aren’t on the list at all so that they could make several tiers of like… violent pornos? Cool cool!
*gets to the end of Level 1*
*removes Levels 2 and 3 from my Watch Next list*
Yeah its almost like its supposed to be surface level or something
"Basically a doll comes alive and becomes a Chucky. This is the Chucky." 😂
I saw the link on tumblr and my immediate reaction was ‘MAY NO’ and my reaction is still ‘MAY NO’
Cannibal Holocaust is 100% a horrific and legitimately racist movie but I don't think your reading is entirely accurate. The movie is about how the Western film crew are far worse than the people they are exploiting and making out to be savages; the ones who start the raping and murdering are the Western film crew. They're left alone up until that point, and they get violent on their own because they view themselves as better than these people, and because they want material for their documentary - because shock and horror and violence sell. As you said, ~~ooo they're the real cannibals~~ kind of is the message of the movie, but it's more about how colonialist, sensationalist horror and 'journalism' is in itself essentially cannibalistic, profiting off of the destruction of humanity. Not to defend the movie or anything, its production is particularly horrific and even more racist than the movie, after all.
but.. thats what she said???
@@aidacelicaguilar7927 My response to this keeps getting filtered out for some reason, but that's not really what she said, she said something more about the film crew being stupid and blundering into danger rather than being dangerous themselves.
There are other exploitation movies ("mondo" movies) in lower tiers where she explains further how Cannibal Holocaust is a response/criticism to these, which are unarguably extremely racist.
Basically everyone here is agreeing :P
@@simonbolivar6169 yes, I was happy to see the more proper processing and acknowledgment of its existence down there
@@aidacelicaguilar7927 I think, as prom says, that regardless of how racist the movie is, the western crew does not so much "stupidly bumble" as walk in, stage a ritual murder, rape people in the population, and get killed as revenge. The "they're just stupid, what did they think would happen" is what she says in this video, but it's nice to hear she talked more about it, and she does end on the main, boiled down version of proms reading: "what if the film crew are the real cannibals?"
I like when you talk about Disturbing Things! I love horror but have hard limits because certain stuff gets trapped in my brain and turns into intrusive thoughts and if I consume it sideways through the May Filter that doesn't happen!
Same! Thank goodness May is willing to absorb that psychic damage for us
In all seriousness, don’t force yourself to watch the more deeper iceberg movies. I love your content but definitely prioritize your mental health and sleep schedule. I tried watching pretty basic horror movies (according to my horror coniseur friends) and I couldn’t sleep properly for almost 2 weeks.
I think something to understand about the 120 days of Sodom is how prescient it still is. In Italy Alessandra Mussolini was an MEP until very recently, one of his grandsons stood to be in the Senate. Fascism is still ripe and a prominent ideology as shown by Liga Nord and the 5 star party.
In Italy a lot of people still have this nostalgia for Mussolini, "he made the trains run on time", etc, both among the elderly who grew up during the war and their children. My father and my aunt's family and my grandparents still hold on to it - I'll never forget my aunt's husband's il duce apron.
I think because of that, it's still quite visceral both in the film itself and in it's application to modern day Italy. Not much has changed since it was made, and there's not been really any reckoning with Italian fascism as there was in Germany. I think it's quite comparable to the Confederacy in the US, in that I think a lot of people would engage in the brutal acts depicted in the film today.
The events of the film didn't actually happen though right
@@chumblewumble2422 It's fictional but based on events like it that were all too common. There's been a lot written about the film and its writer and I think it's very important to understand at the least. The film is really visceral and I don't know that I would recommend it if you don't want to watch it, but you should definitely read about it.
@@chumblewumble2422 Well, I'm pretty sure they've happened somewhere, sometime. If nothing else, allegedly some similar shit (no pun intended) was going on in a certain french aristocrat's castle.
But about fascist italy, I don't know.
Fascism in Lega Nord?? Come on man 😂😂😂😂😂
I don’t trust icebergs unless it’s made by a creator I already watch because there are so many that are bs
oddly enough random iceberg videos are how ive found a ton of smaller creators recently
My senses are immediately graced by the Cheddar Goblin. Fantastic.
“I’m only scared of things that have vomiting in them!” ah, as someone with pretty bad emetophobia i feel seen
I too saw The Grudge with my sister in theater in our home town when I was 13. Coincidentally the person sat next to me on my right was a girl who used to bully me lot in school. She ended up dying later that year. Needless to say, that movie still gives me the heebie jeebies
I’m surprised clockwork orange isn’t somewhere up in one of the more chill tiers, I’ve heard people are disturbed by it (and I’m pissed cause it’s one of my favourite movies)
Clockwork is a good normiecore movie, also super cool book. Loved the way he toyed with language as a vector of culture
I watched this years ago, before YT took me off your Sub list. I still adore you!!
I was today years old when I learned that an iceberg is a fucking iceberg.
What?!
Huhh
Martyrs is a film that still sends cold shivers down my spine whenever I think about it. Genuinely never want to watch it again but simultaneously glad I at least experienced it once.
Side Note: I stan the fictional Conjuring Universe Warrens rather than the real ones because I feel they are straight up grifters who are only different from the likes of Joel Osteen or Pat Robertson in that they don't have megachurch/evangelical empires.
They're also both dead so there's that. LOL.
Still waiting on Pat 'disgusting piece of shit' Robertson & Joel 'vile ripoff scumbag' Osteen to join them. Benny Hinn & Jim Bakker can both go too.
Holy shit I must have dyslexia or something, I read “Pat Robertson” and was like “Oh no, what did Robert Pattinson do?? :( “
@@madeofmeats lol whew nope. He's fine.
It really bothered me too. Made me anxious for days.
Saw the cat ears, instantly liked
Can't believe I've only just found this channel. Definitely subscribing
2009 internet: oh God in this movie they sewed three people together in a row, I can't sleep just from thinking about it
2021 internet: lol close the loop, doc
It has been a long time since i watched nyx and so i was confused when i saw this video popped up that was not a skeleton in the thumbnail. I am glad you are doing you.
When I watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre I sent my partner at the time a picture of the bone couch and said "w-what if we kissed on the bone couch uwu"
so are ya married now? Cause that's keeper-behaviour
@@thatsdisco haha-
Youchie
I am in fact ✨single now✨
@@BonseyJonsey It’s been a year are you still single?
@@angrycat6954 I-
Why do you care?
@@BonseyJonsey answer the question.
I feel the upper part of the iceberg should’ve been filled with the disturbing stuff thats not overtly sexual or violent like Eraserhead. I would be eraserhead and tetsuo iron man on the 1 and 2 parts of the iceberg. I adore this series and I love EVERYTHING you put out, keep on chuggin, queen.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man contains both significant violence and overtly sexual content.
@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick With all the exploitation films I’ve been seeing, it brainwashes me into thinking that Tetsuo Iron Man is not particularly pornographic and gory. My mistake lolol
AHHHHHH YES
disclaimer: I’m still terrified for the final tiers but I’m so happy May is covering it bc this was MADE for her
I like how the view out the window gets darker as we descend down the iceberg
Thank you for that video !
Also, love that Pier Paolo Pasolini made a documentary about what Italians were thinking about gay (as Pasolini was openly gay) and many of the answers were "If there is one in front of me, I kill him" and Pasolini is like ":)" RIP King
when i saw that iceberg i thought "there's quite a bit missing from this that i know may has seen and done videos on" and now yay you're filling in those blanks.
I love how she keeps talking about "people" as if we are not included in that category
Honestly *The House That Jack Built* has one of the best representations of OCD that I've ever seen in cinema. Like to the point it kinda pissed me off how much I related to Jack's delusions and my own experience w/ OCD.
"Taking the horror genre and turning it into a small weird nuclear weapon" Insane how she sort of predicted Malignant with that one phrase.
Part 3 is gonna go all the way to the earth's core.
I watched Dancer in the Dark with my grandma when I was far too young to experience something like that and the final scene of that movie has literally never left me
I saw bits of the last one. It was an animated version of a guro manga. The movie was done by one guy who made it his passion project. It was banned in Japan for a long time.
Honestly the worst part of Tusk in my opinion is that the dude who get turned into the walrus is named Wallace. No idea why, that just pisses me off
lmfao
One of the most disturbing films I’ve ever seen, Titicut Follies, made an appearance on top 10 lists here and there, but I’ve never seen anyone go into real detail about it.
It’s devastating, extremely sad movie
Our queen once again being absolutely adorable while talking about the most vile heinous shit lol
i think you misscharacterized shojo tsubaki as just a horny anime film (in my opinon), but knowing the context and who made it might help you see it different, it was made and animated by just one guy and some voice actors over the course of more than five years, so the animation is very cheap and rudimentary, the director and animator always pushes an anti war and anti bullying agenda, he has a UA-cam channel in witch he depicts different leftist protests and has talked about his own abuse.
i found it to not be very exploitative or showing too much, in my opinion not a movie just for kicks, i dont know if you watched and read it differently tho, it is based on an eroguro manga, i can see how you might draw that conclusion
Brilliant video! For those who want to know about Shoujo Tsubaki, I have seen it and this is my opinion. It is honestly an experience to watch. It combines a lot of beautiful imagery with really really disturbing scenes. I felt so overwhelmed watching it and the ending is so confusing but the experience in general is so worth the watch, and you really feel for the main character. The characters are honestly out of this world, so weird and cruel but so interesting at the same time. Definitely worth a watch if you can handle the imagery and disturbing ideaology.
The Ring was one of the first horror movies I ever watched, I was six years old. I LOVED it. I even pretended to be Samara every time I took a bath.
The Horror Queen once again graces us
idk why, im a crybaby and i got terrified by movies like Tarnation and Cache, but Saló wasnt scary... at all? its just tragic. its just awful. i think its super important to denounce these sorts of things, especially when its something that society wants to ignore. but in the end its not that bad as saw, tbh, at least to me.
Yeah, I feel like ppl don't get that its drama/arthouse and not like a genre film aka horror... And it's become a bit of a novelty for so called "normies" even though its a straight pure cinema... Pasolini's other films are fucking great too specifically Arabians nights
I almost feel like disturbing films and horror/scary movies should be in different categories tbh I’ve been like disgusted and exhausted and moved by disturbing films but they don’t make me like check under my bed before I got to sleep, ya know? Like they aren’t regular scary they are more existential. Or frankly just gross lol
Yeah, I was so scared of watching this film and thought it would be a good idea to read the book first, but the book is out of this world way more fucked up than the movie tbh
Is there anyone who said it was scary?
@@danielvandam I think there was a weird misconception going around online specifically in film lists of so-called most disturbing films ever because I've seen lists with Salo and Cannibal Holocaust, they usually mix in a Serbian film into the bunch. Ppl misconstrued disturbing and horror as the same thing. These lists of films weren't usually created for educational purposes and they weren't aimed at cinephiles, but usually the hegemony, and because of that they were usually clickbait. So now you have all these ppl watching Salo just to say they saw it... and dare I say without really experienceing it as actual cinema. At least that's a partial reason.
I just found your channel and you have earned a new subscriber ! Thank you for subjecting yourself to this horrible crap so we don’t have to.
Sending good vibes for your sanity.
the cheddar goblin and ear headband combo is peak aesthetic, 10/10
You're one of the only people who I know on this platform who can adequately discuss this iceberg. You, Spookyrice and The Horror Geek are my shortlist for this topic.
I love them all. The Horror Geek is so friendly, I really appreciate that he takes the time to interact with so many commenters.
Total disagree on the interpretation of Midsommar (I think it’s more like a violent crash-course on cult psychology, which often includes manipulation through drugs administered with dubious/non consent). BUT freaking rad seeing you cover the Iceberg! Good shit, hyped for part 2
Completely agree.
And if I can add, as a male survivor of sexual assault, it is absolutely WONDERFUL when I see people dismiss the scene where the dude literally gets drugged, gang raped, and then runs away horrified after the fact as him just having sex. Just great.
Cool.
Cool cool cool.
Midsommar is mostly a "break up" movie, the director has said as much. So she is pretty much on the money about the movie.
@@simonbolivar6169 I think it’s a little more ambiguous than that, but I totally get that perspective. But I think it’s more about a breakup being taken advantage of by a cult, so a combination of the two. Like how Hereditary is a child death tragedy that gets taken advantage of by a demon and its worshippers. In Midsommar, I pick up much more on the cult theme partly because real cults do take advantage of trauma and relationship issues, making them worse while misguiding you into thinking it’s better, hence the protagonist’s joy in the end. But that’s just my interpretation of it. I just think it’s more nuanced than how May put it in this video, and she even clarifies it in the next one that she’s aware there’s more to it than that.
Christian was raped and she was just like "drugs made him want to have lotsa da sex." I loved the video but that part did not sit well with me...
@@Ergoperidot honestly, it's a take I've seen in most Midsommar reviews or discussions, where they minimize his rape or discount it entirely, so I'm not entirely surprised. It's just disappointing as hell to see May do the same thing.
27:11 most of the time, cannibalism occurs as a funeral rite, known as mortuary cannibalism. The Wari tribe did this in order to completely break down the body quickly because the idea of burying a corpse and having it rotting in the ground for years was horrific to them. Different cultures have different ideas of what 'putting to rest' means. To the Wari, it was desolation through consuming the body so that it wouldn't be physically present in any recognizable form. Due to invasion of their lands and deforestation, the Wari were exposed to flu, malaria, and a plethora of other diseases they had no immunity against. The Brazilian government agreed to give them medical aid, if they ceased their sacred funerary rites. This is a positive example of mortuary cannibalism, sadly stolen from those who practiced it. It isn't what I want done to my future corpse (the end result of all life) but I sympathize and believe that if a practice doesn't harm or oppress, then go right ahead. Enjoy that Long Pig, just remember the secret's in the sauce
I hope they were careful with the brains and spine, because that's a surefire way to get prion diseases
@@ashergibson9969 relatively certain that they ate their human well done. Now the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea specifically ate the brains and developed kuru, would die from it, and then the cycle would start over. Interestingly, there is currently research showing that members of this tribe may have developed some immunity to prions due to how long this practice was taking place. So to ammend my previous comment, cultural relativism should include space for being critical of practices that are clearly harmful within the practicing group, while understanding reasoning. Best example of taboo in one culture that could be either positive or negative depending on how it's practiced: cannibalism; Fore vs Wari.
This sounds like a weird compliment but the way you structure sentences is hilarious and I love it
omfg i saw your channel recommended on tiktok and i love you
Love your pink hair 🙌 I also thought about you when I saw the wendigoon iceberg too. I feel like all your disturbing movie videos during the pandemic explored a lot of the movies on the list.
I saw the Wendigoon video and the whole time I was thinking "this is something Nyx Fears woulda done", so thank you for doing this thing to me and my mind.
It’s funny that you mentioned how “the human centipede” was made almost as a joke, because Kevin Smith made “tusk” because of a joke/ banter from one of his podcasts. I enjoyed that movie, because it is awful and it is fucked up, but that’s pretty much the point.
I will admit, I was surprised Wendigoon tracked down what he did to watch. A lot of the films on the lower tiers are just pain on celluloid, or, more usually, digital pain. Still, he made a really good effort.
Also, still love your new album.
“‘A Serbian Film’ is *not* queen shit!”
~ Nyx Fears
Spooky on tiktok recommended you for this iceberg! :)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man sounds like, legitimately interesting and possibly scarring
I can confirm both points. I tried to show it to a couple of friends, and we had to stop the film about 20 minutes in, since The Things That Happen Around The 20 Minute Mark was clearly too much for one of them. I have apologised to the friend in question ever since. (Tetsuo is a wild, violent and hyper-kinetic experience, and, demonstrably, not suitable for everyone. I'm personally fascinated with how the director, Shinya Tsukamoto, films movement - there's an angry, intensive, frenetic, unstoppable energy to the way he shoots Tetsuo, or the boxing scenes in Tokyo Fist, or the action in Bullet Ballet).
It's legit awesome, do recommend
I showed it to a friend of mine while they were high out of their mind, and I don’t think they’ve forgiven me since.
@Joey Van hellsing Fortunately, they only had weed. But they had a LOOOOOOOT of weed.
These tiers are so subjective. As soon as you mentioned Suicide Club, I began humming the song that the in-universe band performs in that movie. Because it's rad. I watched that movie as a teenager and it didn't scare me at all. It might be moderately disgusting at times but... Yeah. Many things in lower tiers, on the other hand, make me afraid of walking around my home at night.
🎵Because the dead will shine all night long 🎶
Friday the 13th, Child's Play, and Scream definitely should not be on this list. They are so out of place and not disturbing. They're gems on the slasher genre crown!
The Grudge and The Ring are perfect examples of movies that should be on the list; disturbing and deeply uncomfortable.
actually the way you talked about people cannot handle horror at all - I am one of them! I have once seen a movie about an evil mermaid that my entire friend group laughed through and I spent the entire night watching stand up comedy with the lights on :)
all this to say - you said your channel is a gift to those who are opposite of that, but in fact when I saw this disturbing iceberg on Reddit and noticed how high up were entries I’ve been told are the worst thing in existence, I really wanted to know the story of the lower tiers (and the upper ones too), but I obviously couldn’t research on my own, so your video is a godsend for me bc you’re really funny and you handle the subject matter with such grace, and bc it’s UA-cam I know there‘a at least a degree of censorship
so from a total normie who you tried to warn off - I stayed and I thank you from the bottom of my heart
Your Grudge story is so relatable. I was about the same age when my step-sister and I went to go see The Ring in theaters, and we were sure we were going to die in seven days. Absolutely traumatic experience.
And now here I am! :D
it's stunning how quickly the iceberg devolves from real movies into "The Poop Tapes Vol. 1 and 2"
May, I love how you describe all of these films! I love disturbing cinema, and I love how you analyze them. Keep doing what you're doing, girl!
MAY!!!!! the algorithm had unsubscribed me from you!!!! I was recently wondering where you went but oh my god here you are wowowowow!!!! I LOVE your hair!!!!
The House that Jack Built is probably my least favorite Lars Von Trier, I totally feel the 'smart man makes smart film' vibe. And yes, I fucking love Dancer in the Dark, I watched it was a child and never recovered
Just started binging your channel again and I'm HYPE on this video
Ngl as much of a fan of horror as I am, I am a little terrified to go lower than tier three on this iceberg. Like I'm just not a fan of a lot of the very common things that seem to crop up in those movies.
Came here after Wendigoon's iceberg video, heard you talk for 2 minutes, instantly subscribed
Thank you queen for doing this so we don't have to. Also I would LOVE a video on The Conjuring as christian propaganda and how it compares to the real life Warrens but I totally understand if you wouldn't want to touch that can of worms with a ten foot pole. I just saw 3rd one with my partner and dang they really want to bring the satanic panic back.
This video: *exists*
Me, who doesn't watch horror because it's a massive mental health trigger (history of traumatizing hallucinations):
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"These are illegal" she says, "don't watch them" she says. I hear what you're saying. BUT, hear me out, how about I DO watch them?
All the weird death ones, possibly.
All the…bad naked stuff ones? Do not.
@@starkingbiker depending on the content…some movies have things banned in countries for various reasons.
anything in the bottom teirs arent illegal in the US, you can find most of the movies by just searching up the names or asking people in forums. The youtuber Coldravens nest makes good reviews and explains the movies in teir 8 really well.
afaik real footage of murder/death can be considered evidence in a case? and also these movies’ production included crimes, so it’s probably illegal to buy/own them
@@grindgrindgrind666 its only considered withholding evidence if the death video itself is filmed in the US. The clips in these mixtapes don't show any crime In the US. all the clips in these mixtapes are just clips from Liveleak and Bestgore put together in a 3 hour compilation
This video makes me want to finally finish Pink Flamingos thank you my friend
Finally, a no normie doin the disturbing movie iceberg
The fact that tusk is on the same tier as midsommar is bizarre to me lol
from a quick glimpse of the Iceberg I have not seen anything beyond Tetsuo: The Iron Man, so the next video will be a learning experience for me.
I ordered your novel, Fluids and it just came in!!! I'm SO excited to read it. I love you! Thank you for continuing to make these videos. Keep up the amazing work ❤
We watched dancer in the dark for my film studies class when I was like 17, I don't know how that was allowed, but I just remember the disturbing factor really boiled down to knowing how Bjork was treated on set for me. Its like a creepy home movie.
I'm glad she could reconcile with acting later on though, because I really like her performances.She's going to be in the next Robert Eggers movie and I'm so damn excited.
No one ever talks about this movie. I also watched it young 16 or something and I really wanted to rewatch it. It was beautifully disturbing.
@Dante Dare you literally made me recall a repressed memory from my teen years. I was 16 or 17 and I was home alone and up late and I was looking for something to watch and Dancer in the Dark was coming on some channel and I recall watching it and it really upset me and after that, I was afraid to stay up late because I was afraid of having another experience like I did with Dancer in the Dark.
I can't help but feel like there should be some films in between Conjuring and Human Centipede.
"This is what the kids are calling an iceberg. Because it's an iceberg!"
Me: "Write that down!"
Omg. This is like a combo of the iceberg video with a Disturbing Breakdown from Spookyrice 😭❤️ I'm so excited
I’m so thankful you are doing this challenge!!! You’re the only person who can do it justice in my opinion!
"How many quotable lines should we fit in this video?"
"Yes"
I've seen shoujo tsubaki. I watched it when I was fairly young when I was into edgy shit (it was on UA-cam too?)
The movie is really just about watching the horrible shit an actual child is being out through. The movie really starts and ends on a sad note. It's really a tale of abandonment, and how that can hurt a young person I think in both a literal and metaphorical sense.
Don't recommend, the visuals at times are very intricate and interesting but it's a very hard watch. Read a synopsis if you are interested.
I remember when I watched you when you were just starting UA-cam it’s so good to see you continue making videos and how much they continue to improve
The stuff at the very bottom isn't illegal, just pretty hard to find.
If you want to know what's in them, I recommend the channel Coldraven's Nest as he's currently reviewing them all
Thank you! I was hoping someone in the comments section would address this point! And I'm quite a fan of ColdRaven's Nest; that guy is funny as hell!